You're gonna be bothered by how cool I am.

This is my first LJ posting. Woo-hoo!

Okay, I don't exactly know what to do here. I feel a bit like a new kid at school who is just sitting in a corner, waiting for someone to come say hi.

I guess the first thing I'd like to do, for anyone who might see this, is to explain my username. My actual name is Pam. But I have used "connielane" as my username on lots of discussion forums (mostly to do with Harry Potter). So why the connielane nonsense?

Several years ago, I was watching American Movie Classics and a movie I had never heard of, called "Good News" came on. I started watching it, and I really enjoyed it. In fact, it instantly became one of my favorite movies. So what if it's a corny 1940s musical? So what if it has a plot hole you could sail the Titanic through? It's all about the brainy girl getting the guy, and that gave me hope, not being of the high-maintenance, froofy, girly-girl type myself.

"Good News" is set in 1927 at the fictional Tate College. Tommy Marlowe (played by Peter Lawford) is the football hero, and he's been hearing about this new gorgeous "dame" on campus, Pat Maclellan, who simpers and smiles and tries to impress people with what little she knows of the French language (her delivery of "quel frommage" is particularly hilarious). Tommy is determined to woo her, but all she's after is a rich, sophosticated guy. Determined to show Pat that he can be sophisticated right back, Tommy recruits Connie Lane (my username-sake), a languages major and the assistant librarian, to get him into the toughest French class there is. Connie agrees, and teaches him a bit of French herself. Tommy is instantly drawn to Connie, and even kisses her, but in the next breath he brushes her off, still determined to win the fair Miss Maclellan.

Of course, Tommy realizes that he really loves Connie, and tries to sacrifice his football career and Tate's chances of winning "the big game" by professing his love for Connie on his French exam make-up, which Connie (assistant to the French professor as well) will be grading. If he fails French, he can't play in the game, and for some reason this means that his engagement to Pat Maclellan is null and void. (???) Naturally, everything works out for everyone, and the entire cast performs a rousing musical number in the end.

Yeah, my username is an obscure reference. Even the movie is obscure - I think it's even out of print. But I loved the idea that learning and knowledge can be attractive qualities in a female, and it gave me hope that there are still some guys in the world who look at the right things when it comes to girls.

So, here I am, if anyone's interested.

Ta!

This is my first LJ posting. Woo-hoo!

Okay, I don't exactly know what to do here. I feel a bit like a new kid at school who is just sitting in a corner, waiting for someone to come say hi.

I guess the first thing I'd like to do, for anyone who might see this, is to explain my username. My actual name is Pam. But I have used "connielane" as my username on lots of discussion forums (mostly to do with Harry Potter). So why the connielane nonsense?

Several years ago, I was watching American Movie Classics and a movie I had never heard of, called "Good News" came on. I started watching it, and I really enjoyed it. In fact, it instantly became one of my favorite movies. So what if it's a corny 1940s musical? So what if it has a plot hole you could sail the Titanic through? It's all about the brainy girl getting the guy, and that gave me hope, not being of the high-maintenance, froofy, girly-girl type myself.

"Good News" is set in 1927 at the fictional Tate College. Tommy Marlowe (played by Peter Lawford) is the football hero, and he's been hearing about this new gorgeous "dame" on campus, Pat Maclellan, who simpers and smiles and tries to impress people with what little she knows of the French language (her delivery of "quel frommage" is particularly hilarious). Tommy is determined to woo her, but all she's after is a rich, sophosticated guy. Determined to show Pat that he can be sophisticated right back, Tommy recruits Connie Lane (my username-sake), a languages major and the assistant librarian, to get him into the toughest French class there is. Connie agrees, and teaches him a bit of French herself. Tommy is instantly drawn to Connie, and even kisses her, but in the next breath he brushes her off, still determined to win the fair Miss Maclellan.

Of course, Tommy realizes that he really loves Connie, and tries to sacrifice his football career and Tate's chances of winning "the big game" by professing his love for Connie on his French exam make-up, which Connie (assistant to the French professor as well) will be grading. If he fails French, he can't play in the game, and for some reason this means that his engagement to Pat Maclellan is null and void. (???) Naturally, everything works out for everyone, and the entire cast performs a rousing musical number in the end.

Yeah, my username is an obscure reference. Even the movie is obscure - I think it's even out of print. But I loved the idea that learning and knowledge can be attractive qualities in a female, and it gave me hope that there are still some guys in the world who look at the right things when it comes to girls.

So, here I am, if anyone's interested.

Ta!